Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [1 Corinthians: Chapter 4].
7:1. The censorious habit was ruining the Corinthian Church.
{Before the time} (\pro kairou\). The day of the Lord in 3:13.
"Do not therefore anticipate the great judgment (\krisis\) by any
preliminary investigation (\anakrisis\) which must be futile and
incomplete" (Lightfoot). {Until the Lord come} (\he•s an elth•i
ho kurios\). Common idiom of \he•s\ and the aorist subjunctive
with or without \an\ for a future event. Simple futurity, but
held forth as a glorious hope, the Second Coming of the Lord
Jesus as Judge. {Who will both bring to light} (\hos kai
ph•tisei\). Future indicative of this late verb (in papyri also)
from \ph•s\ (light), to turn the light on the hidden things of
darkness. {And make manifest} (\kai phaner•sei\). (Ionic and
late) causative verb \phanero•\ from \phaneros\. By turning on
the light the counsels of all hearts stand revealed. {His praise}
(\ho epainos\). The praise (note article) due him from God (Ro
2:29) will come to each then (\tote\) and not till then.
Meanwhile Paul will carry on and wait for the praise from God.
4:6 {I have in a figure transferred} (\metesch•matisa\). First
aorist active (not perfect) indicative of \meta-sch•matiz•\, used
by Plato and Aristotle for changing the form of a thing (from
\meta\, after, and \sch•ma\, form or habit, like Latin _habitus_
from \ech•\ and so different from \morph•\ as in Php 2:7; Ro
12:2). For the idea of refashioning see Field, _Notes_, p. 169f.
and Preisigke, _Fachworter_). Both Greek and Latin writers
(Quintilian, Martial) used \sch•ma\ for a rhetorical artifice.
Paul's use of the word (in Paul only in N.T.) appears also
further in 2Co 11:13-15 where the word occurs three times,
twice of the false apostles posing and passing as apostles of
Christ and ministers of righteousness, and once of Satan as an
angel of light, twice with \eis\ and once with \h•s\. In Php
3:21 the word is used for the change in the body of our
humiliation to the body of glory. But here it is clearly the
rhetorical figure for a veiled allusion to Paul and Apollos "for
your sakes" (\dia humas\). {That in us ye may learn} (\hina en
h•min math•te\). Final clause with \hina\ and the second aorist
active subjunctive of \manthan•\, to learn. As an object lesson
in our cases (\en h•min\). It is no more true of Paul and Apollos
than of other ministers, but the wrangles in Corinth started
about them. So Paul boldly puts himself and Apollos to the fore
in the discussion of the principles involved. {Not to go beyond
the things which are written} (\to M• huper ha gegraptai\). It is
difficult to reproduce the Greek idiom in English. The article
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